Sentences with phrase «of her legal career working»

Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg spent most of her legal career working on the advancement of women's rights as a constitutional right.

I have spent a good part of my legal career working in the area of divorce and custody in the context of a parent with suspected or diagnosed BPD and NPD traits.

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«Whilst single dads have the same rights as single mums in terms of the legal right to request flexible working, many feel that there is a stigma attached to asking to go part time and that it will irreparably damage their careers.

He began his professional legal career as a law clerk for Circle Surrogacy in 2004, where he assisted in all aspects of client legal work including drafting surrogate agreements and attending adoption hearings.

«Throughout her career, Professor Rivera has worked to defend the legal rights of all New Yorkers and make our state a fairer, more just place to live,» Cuomo said in a statement.

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The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

As the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.; worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as counsel for his Poor People's Campaign; and dedicated her early career to defending the civil liberties of people struggling to overcome poverty and discrimination.

A career correctional professional, she worked at the Prince George's County Department of Corrections from 1989 to 2012 where she retired as chief of the Office of Responsibility and Legal Affairs at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

NSBA is working with federal policy makers, legal scholars, opinion leaders, members of the education community, business leaders, and the media to shape public education so students graduating this year and in the future, are ready for college, career, and life.

Above all, the flexibility to move to different administrations within DOT, try out different practice areas (adjudications, regulations, enforcement, employment litigation, general law, environmental law, and tribal law), and work with a variety of professionals has been an invaluable experience at the start of my legal career.

I recently heard a law firm administrator tell a group of associates how important it is that they carefully handle their relationships with support staff because a reputation for being hard to work with can follow you throughout your legal career.

But more than that, my career path helps me on the «human» part of the business; working closely with IP in modern technology companies makes it easier to understand the technical part of the issues and makes one a better person to talk to in relation to blockchain developers and understand the content of product, which is surely the core part of the whole legal structure of the ICO.

If you only limit yourself to taking the cases with which you feel entirely comfortable, you will be stuck working on a few simple types of cases for your entire career — never developing the legal experience necessary for your career to progress.

If you take the opportunity to learn, provide solid legal work, develop meaningful professional relationships and remember that a career is a long thing, you face a greater likelihood of being well - positioned when something better comes along.

Needed are career - oriented experienced legal research lawyers, specialized in each area of the practice of law, working in a national legal research unit serving all lawyers and judges in Canada — a national service provided by an upgraded CanLII.

I will be writing on a variety of subjects covering all kinds of legal work that I do to support my alternative career ambitions.

Having worked in law firms for much of her career, Emma is experienced in many of the online and information aspects of the legal business.

Kim & Chang offers a rewarding career for highly motivated individuals who want to work on cutting - edge projects with some of the most impressive legal talent anywhere.

In fact, the Carnegie Report's recommendation to this effect acknowledges that it is «building on the work already underway in several law schools...» 49 And based on these experiences, a robust literature has developed extolling the virtues of integrating writing with doctrine.50 In reviewing this literature, a number of themes emerge: integration sends the right institutional message to students about the importance of writing in their legal careers and about the relationships between doctrine, analysis, and writing; 51 there is a strong connection between writing and thinking; 52 and writing is an integral part of the learning process.53 Integrating doctrine and writing therefore sends an explicit message that law students do not write in a vacuum, they always write about some legal doctrine, and they learn that doctrine better when they analyze it fully enough to be able to write about it.

Does the school offer or require internships, and provide placement assistance for graduates to make the launch of their legal careers and working life easier?

Alison Goodwin was born and brought up around horses having ridden at National level in both Eventing and Dressage and having spent a number of years working in an international event yard before embarking upon her legal career.

Kara works with individuals, law schools, and law firms to improve productivity, efficiency, job satisfaction, and professional development at all stages of a legal career.

Nathalie Des Rosiers, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, says legal education has been changing with the times to help prepare students to be flexible enough to move from career to career over the course of their working lives.

She is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and has worked as a legal secretary at the Court prior to her academic career.

This mix of tasks is paired with an applicant pool that includes many lawyers looking for alternative legal careers, and the persistent idea that technical work requires IT professionals to manage it.

From a legal perspective I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked with exceptional partners from an early stage of my career at Eversheds (Ian Richardson, David Gray) through to carrying Squire Signy's bags at Clifford Chance for the best part of seven years!

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Sarah has been seconded to a number of clients during her career, to work with their in - house legal and HR teams.

They have an attention to detail and a tenacity which enables them to master the matter in hand to a degree that I have rarely encountered in a long career of working with external legal providers.»

He spends his entire legal career at the Department of Justice, having been posted to different parts of it and undertaking both civil as well as criminal work before the courts or otherwise.

Throughout his career, Landherr has worked to bridge the gap between the legal world and that of his clients and colleagues.

Meanwhile, out of Tennessee comes the story of a lawyer whose conversion to working with the poor came not late in his career but quite early — and took him from the seminary to Legal Aid.

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While Ashurov has heard of a special digital camera that can convert a photo into a voice description, for the moment he relies on the help of his wife, who has worked as his assistant for his entire legal career.

Most felt that, at the time they decided to go to law school, they didn't fully appreciate the extent of the demands a legal career would place on them (the number of hours required to be worked each week, the extent to which work would intrude on their private life, etc.).

A significant majority of respondents (80 %) indicated that work experience (both paid and unpaid) had helped further their career in legal aid.

After graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law in 2007, Alex started his legal career with the Litigation & Dispute Resolution department of Drew & Napier, and worked as legal counsel for Asia Pacific at American semi-conductor company Xilinx.

Because professionalism education needs to be an ongoing part of every legal career, we work with law schools to create state - of - the - art educational programs for students, faculty and alumni.

Schellhase, who has worked at a number of technology start - ups, began his legal career as an associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.

When young attorneys join a new firm fresh out of law school, they're eager to start putting their hard - earned legal knowledge to use, but the realities of legal work can make them prone to early mistakes that could put their careers in jeopardy, attorneys say.

Seemingly endless numbers of articles have been written about the keys to a successful legal career, each with a twist but many, many commonalities: embrace hard work, find a mentor / sponsor and make yourself useful to him or her, specialize in something strategic and valuable, build strong relationships with your clients, etc..

The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System's initiative Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers works to align legal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carLegal System's initiative Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers works to align legal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carlegal education with the needs of an evolving profession by facilitating, evaluating, and promoting law teaching methods designed to produce graduates who are employable and practice - ready; able to meet the needs of their employers, their clients, and society; and prepared to lead and respond to changes in the legal profession throughout their carlegal profession throughout their careers.

There are lots of exceptionally successful and inspirational people working in the legal industry and the most valuable thing I did in the very early years of my career was never shying away from asking lots of questions.

Given its crucial importance as a foundation to a lawyer's professional identity and work ethic, the legal profession should put more emphasis on reminding lawyers how to embody and maintain S&E throughout their careers, and should explicitly explore or define these terms within the Rules of Professional Conduct or in other frameworks defining professionalism.

Legal transcriptionists who work at home are more likely to work irregular hours including part - time, evenings, and weekends - but have the flexibility of scheduling their own hours to fit their lifestyles and work around career and family demands.

Thomas Graves had an extensive background in the operation of companies, having spent the first fifteen years of his legal career as in - house counsel for three different exploration and production companies, giving him first - hand understanding of how businesses work.

The Colorado Lawyer Assistance Program provides confidential assistance for any career challenge that interferes with the ability to be a productive member of the legal community; including but not limited to: Practice Management, Work / Life Integration, Stress / Anger Management, Anxiety, Depression, Substance Use, and Relationship Issues.

As a trainee you will be simultaneously working for several members of a legal department at any one time, just as you will be juggling the demands of multiple clients throughout your future career.

Having started her legal career in the employment team at Edwards Duthie in 2004, Homa moved to Webster Dixon Solicitors in 2006, where she advised employees and employers in a mix of contentious and non-contentious work.